Time to Relax

It's a beautiful day and Dillon and I are in Galveston!  We're here for Dimi's restaurant opening at Pier 21.  It's called Olympia at Pier 21.  I'm so proud of her and can't wait to see her and what she's done tonight.  I was down in Galveston for a day with my Mom a few weeks ago and it looked amazing so I can't wait to see what it's like now.  Dillon and I spent the day walking around on the beach and playing in the water.  Tonight's the party and then more beach time tomorrow. We're gonna check out this neat looking bar on the seawall called Float that has a bar with live music and a pool you can hang out in to cool off.  Sounds like fun to me.  Great Galveston weekend!!!

Schooling

So time flies when you're unemployed!  It's been just over a month since I lost my job and believe it or not I've been crazy busy.  I've been working with a friend and her wedding planning business and learning alot. It's been fun though and  I'm really looking forward to booking my first wedding that's mine!  We've got some leads so hopefully that will happen sometime soon.  Until then I've really enjoying working with Sam and I'm learning everything I can from here.  Well I'm off to change for a lunch meeting and then projects, projects, projects!!

Sadness

Well bad news came in today about my friend Misty.  She was diagnosed with breast cancer today.  It's scary for me so I can't imagine what she's feeling like right now.  Misty is one of the nicest, most genuine people that I know and I just don't understand why this is happening to her and don't think it's fair. Tomorrow she has surgery and then will start radiation treatment.  Really that's all I know as of yet but I know that she is such a strong person and if anyone can fight through something like this she can.  Attached is a photo from Jenny's bridal shower.  Misty is on the far left side.  

A Moment in the Workforce

Well yesterday I found myself feeling more like a human.  I've realized that working and having things to do make me feel like a person.  My friend Samantha owns her own company as  a wedding planner and I went and helped her with a wedding yesterday.  It was nice to see that I think I could be good at that and enjoy it.  The day was long, 12 hours, but that's never something that's bothered me.  It would be nice to be in charge of my own future and run my own life instead of having to listen to another corporate company.  I just really realized from this last job that I don't want to have to do what someone else says all the time and play the corporate game.  I guess I have to decide if I want to take the risk from here.  I also still need to look at what is out there and see what the world has to offer.  We'll see though, here's to weddings!!!  Anyone know someone who wants to get married!

Pain

Dillon and I have decided that we want to do an intense workout system and after scouring the infomercials we found P90X.  We ordered it off ebay and it finally arrived all the way from China today.  (Gotta save a buck without a job so I'm sure it's an illegal copy)  This system is made up of 90 days worth of hour long workouts. The first day today was chest and back workout.  After Dillon and I doing it today I think that we will either be ripped in 90 days or dead.  Can't believe that I could be in this much pain when it's only been a few hours since I worked out!  I don't even want to think about tomorrow morning!!  At the moment Dillon is passed out on the couch from it!  So anyway, we didn't take any official pics or anything for before and after but hopefully our afters are going to be great and not just us in pain and laying their!

Long Time No Post

So it's been a long time since I've blogged on here.  Part of that was due to my computer being in the shop getting fixed twice and part because I just got lazy about it.  Well now I guess I have plenty of time to do this.  Monday afternoon I was called into my HR department at the hotel and laid off.  Even though we knew there was a lot of this going on in the hotel I still was surprised since I was closing sales and doubled the number of weddings we were doing this year over the last year.  So now I'm at home and pretty bitter about it but in the end I'm hoping everything is going to turn out all right.  Until then, anyone who lives nearby give me a call and we can get together, I've got nothing but time!  We're drinking at home though cause it's way cheaper!

Besides all of this craziness it was a fun last month with my friend Doni's wedding and my friend Chris' wedding.  Below is a picture from the wedding.  She was a beautiful bride and it was fun being her bridesmaid because we got to pick our own black cocktail dresses. Unfortunately no pics from Chris' wedding because my camera was not working.  

Well I'm off for now.  If anyone hears about any jobs give me a call!

Layoffs

Today I experienced the economy and layoffs for the first time.  My job is safe, for now anyway, but my coworker Scott is not as lucky.  Today, after lunch, I was sitting in the office when he came in and shut the door.  He said he has something to tell us (all of the sales managers are in one office with cubicles) they had just laid him off.  The silence in the office truly made it feel like someone had died.  It was a lot of surprise and apologies, no one knowing quite what to say, after all, does this mean that our jobs are safe since his isn't?  

Scott was really the first major layoff we've had in the hotel.  Now I know that there are these massive companies laying off thousands upon thousands of people but we are a small hotel with only 135 rooms.  Our salaried management staff is not huge and we had really resisted any sort of downsizing.  They had also really been preaching for a long time that their were not going to be any layoffs anytime soon and that we were really going to make it work.  Well as it turns out, we're hurting worse than I think they are letting us know.  I think that I feel the worst about how Scott and I had resorted to joking about layoffs.  He and I had decided not too long ago that if they did end up having to cut someone it was going to be one of us and we would claim things off of each others desks that we wanted when the other one left, the biggest for me being his whole desk itself, so much nicer than mine.  Well in the end I guess I might get the opportunity now to have that desk but I'd rather have Scott there.